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Start-ups promising to strike it rich by capitalizing on the assuredly impending rise of bitcoin have attracted investors of all walks. Venture capitalists who have been, as an industry, hyped by decades of exponential returns on tech firms, outsiders just trying to get in on the...

Largest US-based bitcoin exchange company Coinbase has said it is “extremely concerned with the indiscriminate breadth of the government’s request” following the filing of court papers by lawyers for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to serve a summons on the exchange, reports...

Coinbase, the digital bitcoin wallet company, announced Wednesday it now accepts PayPal and credit cards for bitcoin sells and bitcoin buys, respectively. The company said in a corporate blog post that through the PayPal integration, Coinbase customers are now able to sell...

In a Medium blog post titled Ethereum is the Forefront of Digital Currency, Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam endorses the digital currency and discusses the possibility that it could surpass bitcoin in every way. Ehrsam explains his theory that bitcoin is to...

Starting Tuesday, Coinbase will support ether trading on its exchange, which will rebrand as GDAX (Global Digital Asset Exchange). The San Francisco-based company confirmed the move on Twitter, where it registered an official GDAX account. Coinbase stated its consumer product is...

Coinbase and Ripple Labs are both close to obtaining a BitLicense in order to operate in New York, according to a source who spoke to Reuters. The news agency cited a notice published on the New York State Department of Financial Services website, dated April 28, stating that the...

At a demonstration at the Consensus 2016 conference in New York, BitPay revealed a new bitcoin debit card that is available in all 50 U.S. states. Issued by Metropolitan Commercial Bank, the debit card allows clients to load bitcoin, make payments at Visa POS systems and take out...

CEX.IO, a UK-based cryptocurrency exchange, announced Thursday the launch of instant U.S. dollar, euro and Russian ruble withdrawals to payment cards. In a press release sent to CoinReport, the exchange said it has enabled withdrawals of fiat funds to Visa and MasterCard. CEX.IO...

Financial services company United Services Automobile Association (USAA) announced earlier this week that account holders can now view their Coinbase account information within the company’s site. “Traditionally, USAA is very good about getting in front of emerging...

The Open Bitcoin Privacy Project (OBPP) – an open-source, global organization whose mandate is to improve financial privacy within the Bitcoin ecosystem – has released its second report rating Bitcoin wallets. In the new report, OBPP assesses 20 wallets, double the amount of...